Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 41-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
David Lester’s Revolution By Fire (Beacon Press, an independent publisher of serious non-fiction) is an exquisitely drawn graphic novel is about New York’s Afro-Irish uprising of 1741, when an eclectic crew of renegades attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial social order.
“Texada Warns Me” from Flood Plain (K, 1993) (download):